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The monthly provision for depreciation and amortization (applicable to utility property other than electric plant, electric plant in service, and equipment).
Industry:Energy
A point or measuring station at which a distributing gas utility receives gas from a natural gas pipeline company or transmission system.
Industry:Energy
The depth of the deepest production is the length of the well bore measured (in feet) from the surface reference point to the bottom of the open hole or the deepest perforation in the casing of a producing well.
Industry:Energy
An electric rate schedule applicable to one or more specified classes of service, groups of businesses, or customer uses.
Industry:Energy
The elimination of some or all regulations from a previously regulated industry or sector of an industry.
Industry:Energy
Customers grouped by similar characteristics in order to be identified for the purpose of setting a common rate for electric service. Usually classified into groups identified as residential, commercial, industrial, and other.
Industry:Energy
The nominal net electrical output of a nuclear unit, as specified by the utility for the purpose of plant design.
Industry:Energy
A Kyoto Protocol program that enables industrialized countries to finance emissions-avoiding projects in developing countries and receive credit for reductions achieved against their own emissions limitation targets. Also see Kyoto Protocol.
Industry:Energy
The achieved river, pondage, or reservoir surface height (forebay elevation) that provides the water level to produce the full flow at the gate of the turbine in order to attain the manufacturer's installed nameplate rating for generation capacity.
Industry:Energy
A term used to refer to all forms of climatic inconsistency, but especially to significant change from one prevailing climatic condition to another. In some cases, "climate change" has been used synonymously with the term "global warming"; scientists, however, tend to use the term in a wider sense inclusive of natural changes in climate, including climatic cooling.
Industry:Energy